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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherMelbourne University Publishing
ISBN-100522844936
ISBN-139780522844931
eBay Product ID (ePID)2589729
Product Key Features
Number of Pages152 Pages
Publication NameCultural Materialism
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1989
SubjectSociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
TypeTextbook
AuthorAndrew Milner
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science
SeriesInterpretations Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight6.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN94-140429
Dewey Decimal306.3
SynopsisFor much of the 20th century, idealist accounts sought to represent culture as pure consciousness, while materialist accounts represented it as a secondary effect of some other material reality. From the 1970s, however, new theoretical paradigms have sought rather to establish the materiality of culture itself. The term cultural materialism, coined by Raymond Williams, describes this emergent body of cultural theory., This book places cultural materialism in relation to earlier paradigms such as literary humanism and Marxism, and explains how the new paradigm has been applied to important areas such as cultural studies, media studies and literary studies.